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Monday, May 18, 2026
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

‘My Ambition Is Under Control’

State Congress President Professor Saif Ud Din Soz in an Interview with Tasavur MushtaqKashmir Life: Why your old comrades in National Conference think that...

‘CM is invested more in Delhi’

“The country (India) has not acceded with the people of Kashmir but with a particular party or family. They (New Delhi) are not ready...

Mustafa Kamal

“When I say unfettered (election), it means silence of the militant’s gun and non-interference of the security forces, particularly the Army in the election...

Over To The Judiciary

In 1996, four civilians were kidnapped in Bhaderwah, allegedly in a police truck. Three, including a father-son duo, were murdered but the fourth escaped....

Weekly is a tough job

After 27 successful years as a weekly, Chattan turned daily. Its editor Tahir Mohi-ud-Din talks about the emergence of Chattan as a political weekly,...

‘We need to improve’

Director Health Dr Saleem Ur Rehman talks about the various initiatives taken by the department to strengthen healthcare services in Kashmir in an interview...

All elements from Kashmir

Renowned neurologist Dr Shusheel Razdan receives a lot of patients from Kashmir -  a place where was born, brought up, married and loved.  He...

Loved to be a clinician

Leading endocrinologist and former Director SKIMS, Dr Hamid Zargar talks about his tenure and experiences in Kashmir’s premier heathcare institution in an interview with...

‘Government fails to fulfil promises’

Muhammad Yasin Khan assumed charge of President of Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) in February 2011, after being a successful trader for 20...

Challenging the Stereotype

Gulshan Akhtar is one of the two female SHOs in Kashmir and heads Srinagar’s only women’s police station at Rambagh. She talks to Aliya...

Numbers Game

The decadal headcount has always kicked up controversies in J&K especially since 1981. Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmad Faktoo in an interview with Ikhlaq Qadri,...

‘Absolutely no confusion’

Kashmir’s top cop Shiv Murari Sahai talks about policing in an interview with Abdul Mohamin. Excerpts.Kashmir Life: How has Jammu and Kashmir police progressed...

The forecast man

The head of the Srinagar Met Office, Sonam Lotus talks about working of the department in an interview with Aliya Bashir. Excerpts.Kashmir Life :...

Memories of a Pandit boy

Siddhartha Gigoo wanted to write a novella, but could not stick to the word count. In a freewheeling interview with Ibrahim Wani in New...

‘Industry should be exempted from curfews and strikes’

Shaqeel Qalander has been head of Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) from 2005, first as a caretaker chairman then as elected one for...